Reluctance to Pronounce Cause of Learning Disabilities

Kids with learning challenges have specific patterns of medical issues, when reduced leads to a reduction of symptoms.

American Pediatric Association admits destroyed researcher careers in the autism-vaccine linkage has restricted cause pronouncements where special interest groups are involved.

Currently, harm, not safety must be rigorously proven. But little funding is available to do it. It takes a long time to prove harm sufficently to get protection, and even longer to clear toxins from the enviornment. A study, published in the American Journal of Public Health in 1989, found that 70 percent of 4-year-olds had DDT in their blood, and more than 50 percent had PCB’s. DDT was banned in the United States in 1972.

The World Health Organization estimates 1 in 6 children in industrialized countries have neuro-developmental behavioral intellectual disorders with environmental linkages.

Philippe Grandjean, M.D., from the Harvard School of Public Health, authored "Neurobehavioural effects of developmental toxicity", and led more than 200 of the world's leading environmental scientists in a Declaration of Warning that a growing body of evidence indicates that humans are vulnerable to long-term harm from toxic exposures in the womb and during their first years increasing neurodevelopmental disabilities, including autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, dyslexia, and other cognitive impairments.

Many governmental agencies and industry groups, particularly in the United States, have said there is no or little human evidence to support concerns about most toxic residue in air, water, food and consumer products. Who is personally accountable?

Fortunately, there are many common-sense practices that can be adopted to minimize the impact, and reduce learning challenge symptoms.